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This past weekend's hogtown brewer meeting had a special guest- Michael Ferguson, the head of brewery operations at the BJ's restaurant chain.  BJ's is opening a store here in Gainesville, and Mr. Ferguson (whose nickname is 'Mufasa') was in town to help with the opening.  He's a formally trained master brewer with nearly twenty years of experience in the business, and a hell of a nice guy.  I really enjoyed getting to chat with someone who has made a career out of brewing, and getting to serve him some of my homebrew!  I could especially relate to that fact that he used to work for IBM and after years decided to take the plunge- I've got a lot of respect for that.   His visit really built some goodwill for BJ's with the homebrew club!  I hope BJ's suceeds as this town can certainly use more good places to get beer.